Craigie65

Most definitely, Slog !!

If ya don't take them off, ye can quite easily walk into walls/doorways/animals.

Not to mention the head-spins just from standing upright quickly !!!

 

I need my glasses to read and without them any detail on my build is just a blur. Mind you when I take them off the ship looks perfect!

 

I often use a magnifying lamp to paint the detail. As for finding a 1 mm part........

Add some scale roman marines and you could have the bones of a wonderful diorama

I have an airbrush as like you I also build aircraft and armour. It was one of the best investments I made. However depending on what i am painting a hairy stick can be best. For my Granado I airbrushed the hull below the waterline. Just too big an area to get wrong. I also airbrushed the wales. For the interior I used a brush and I find 2 or 3 coats of thinned acrylic paint is just fine.

 

If I just built ships I am less convinced that an airbrush would be a sound investment but with over 60 aircraft built and a dozen or so tanks well.....

I was wondering as well Craig. Think it may be this:http://www.taimen.com/en/se/product/stonefly-bobbin-threader_99931416/103887

Got it now - I was figuring out why I needed waders to thread a line

http://www.taimen.com/en/se/product/stonfo-bobbin-threader-2-loop-wire_9931/102339

interesting link - what are we looking for?

Nice little tool - did you make it? I sometimes use the needle threaders you can buy in any sewing shop. I find that dipping the end of the line in a bit of CA works just as well and can be easier in those hard to reach places

It also helps to hide the laminated walnut that the carriages are made out of

Bit of both. Instructions neutral but I think red looks better and I think I read it somewhere on this forum that red would have been a likely colour.

I should start a log Craig, haven't done one before as it's my first build and I guess wasn't sure if anyone would be too interested given the quality of others in the forum. Will try and get something together.....

I'll be interested for one

Always room for more sanding. Did you fit the foaming with the chimney in place? It'll help get a nice fit.

Yes I tacked the chimney in place and measured the coaming around it. I have taken it off as I want to modify it with a screen for the front

Just noticed that the last picture shows the coaming that surrounds the chimney needs a bit of sanding

Hi Mick

Are you starting a build log? Always good to see how fellow builders are getting on

Timmo

Thanks for the heads up as I am starting on the headrails this weekend. Might try a test fit to see if I have tHe same issue.

There are three articles pinned to the start of the section you have posted this thread in.

There are some good primers in the resources section on how to plank. We worth a read first. Takes a bit to get straight in your mind- well it did for me. But well worth the effort

Perhaps posting a few pictures in a log might allow you to get some additional advice from the planking gurus on the site. They can usually give you advice to sort most things

Doing a great job

Managed to find time to post an update

 

I have re done the blocks of the two cannon under the forecastle

 

 

 

 

Thanks to all who helped me get this right

 

The forecastle deck has been added and planking has been completed and the combing for the galley chimney added. I like Timmo's additions to the chimney and plan to do the same. The bow sprit opening could have been better. I do wonder if this would have been caulked to make it a little more watertight - any input would be welcome.

 

 

Chimney and capping rail next

And that differs from summer there how, Craig? Oh yes, I remember......the rain is warmer in summer!!! :P

very cruel and only partly true

Mick no need to apologise actually my turn for calling you Mike. I think these logs are as much about learning as anything else. If I had not asked for help on the blocks .... Well it would be a disaster later

I can only echo Grant - amazing BBQ. Very jealous as it is mid winter here which means rain and wind looking forward to seeing your build progressing

Mick thanks. As Timmo has suggested quite a bit of sanding was required to get the shape right at the bow. When I test fitted the planks close to the keel I decided to take even more off those filler blocks to make the lines smooth.

 

Timmo thanks for the kind words. At the time I could have cursed the paint to NZ and back. However looking at the hull now I am so glad I stripped it back.

As for the blocks I found the smaller ones hiding at the bottom of the box - how foolish did I feel! The packet they were in had fallen out of the bubble wrap bag I have removed the wrong ones and refitted the right ones. Looks much better. I will try and post some pictures over the weekend.

I reckon most of it could be sprayed and details picked out with a hairy stick

 

I tend to go for sub assemblies which I spray and then attach to the deck or superstructure

Eric

 

Nice to see the detail resin can bring to a kit. Do you have pictures of the hull or contents of the kit?

No bad